it left syria strained. and what was really sad was the inability for the council and the authority to have been accepted so that we could have stopped that war. >> rose: how much pressure was brought to bear on you from washington? >> there was pressure. but i didn't feel it too much in the sense that i felt i had the right position. my position i was really not in favor of the war. and i was also talking to quite a lot, quite a few leaders around the world. i was on the phone all the time. and i knew their position too. and so i knew majority of the member states were not in favor of the war. >> rose: would they have been in favor if, in fact, the inspectors had continued, and there was a point in which the inspection had clearly failed? i mean-- has been here. >> yeah, i think that would have been my expectation. >> rose: if, in fact, they had ra lawed inspectors to go back even though iraqies had thrown them out. >> yeah. >> they went back. the inspectors went back. they were in the middle of doing their